Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
Engineering organisation BAE Systems is to recruit 287 additional staff in 2014. Recruitment will be aimed at graduates, mainly to reinforce the company’s cyber and security operations (120 posts).
In 2013, the ERM reported on the company’s plan to cut 1,775 jobs by the end of 2016.
Eurofound (2014), BAE Systems, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76569, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76569.